Climatic and anthropogenic drivers of a drying Himalayan river

Penny, Gopal; Dar, Zubair A.; Müller, Marc F.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-375-2022

Articles | Volume 26, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-375-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-375-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 26, issue 2

Research article

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24 Jan 2022

Research article |

| 24 Jan 2022

Climatic and anthropogenic drivers of a drying Himalayan river

Gopal Penny, Zubair A. Dar, and Marc F. Müller

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-375-2022-supplement

Data sets

MOD09A1 MODIS Surface Reflectance 8-Day L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V006 E. Vermote https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD09A1.006

MODIS Global Terrestrial Evapotranspiration (ET) Product (MOD16A2/A3 and Year-End Gap-Filled MOD16A2GF/A3GF) NASA Earth Observing System MODIS Land Algorithm (For Collection 6) S. W. Running, Q. Mu, M. Zhao, and A. Moreno https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD16A2.006

MCD12Q1 MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V006 M. Friedl and D. Sulla-Menashe https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.006

Short summary

We develop an empirical approach to attribute declining streamflow in the Upper Jhelum watershed, a key subwatershed of the transboundary Indus basin. We find that a loss of streamflow since the year 2000 resulted primarily due to interactions among vegetation and groundwater in response to climate rather than local changes in land use, revealing the climate sensitivity of this Himalayan watershed.